SAN FRANCISCO,
February 16, 2006 — Faculty members in the Broadcast
and Electronic Communication Arts (BECA) Department at San Francisco
State University are available to comment to the media on topics ranging
from broadcast media ethics and law to trends and issues in popular
culture.

Professor
Betsy Blosser is an expert on the effects of television on society
and educational
television/media. Blosser is writing a
book
on television and social change, to be published by Sage Publications.
She earned her doctorate in children and television from Stanford
University.

Blosser
can be reached at (415) 338-2456 (office) or blosser@sfsu.edu. She
is available for interviews in Spanish in addition
to English.

Assistant
Professor Melissa Camacho is an expert on feminist
issues, cultural studies and mass media (with special expertise in
television).
Camacho, whose dissertation focused on feminist narratives in
the popular television drama Law and Order," earned a doctorate
in communication arts and sciences from Michigan State University.

Camacho
can be reached at (415) 338-6526 (office) or mcamacho@sfsu.edu. She
is available for interviews in Spanish in addition to English.

Professor
Rick Houlberg is an expert on television and radio, documentaries,
on-air performance, general broadcast radio,
broadcast issues,
and veteran's issues in the media. Houlberg serves as faculty
adviser to the student-run radio station, KSFS. He earned
his doctorate
in
mass
communications from Ohio State University.

Assistant
Professor Dina Ibrahim is an expert on Middle Eastern politics and
media. Her research focuses on media framing of Arab and American
broadcast and satellite media. A former reporter for BBC World Service
Radio who has worked in Saudi Arabia, London and Cairo, Ibrahim holds
a doctorate in journalism from University of Texas, Austin.

Ibrahim
can be reached at (415) 338-1528 (office) or dibrahim@sfsu.edu.
She is
available for interviews in Arabic in addition to English.

Professor
and Department Chair Phil Kipper is an expert on news in the electronic
media, televised political debates, television drama
and dramatic
writing, interactive media, and visual information processing. He
worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine editor, and was a news contributor
for National Public Radio before entering academia. He earned his
doctorate
in communication from University of Utah.

Assistant
Professor Brent Malin is an expert on cultural studies,
popular culture, and media theory and criticism. His book, American
Masculinity
Under Clinton: Popular Media and the Nineties ‘Crisis of
Masculinity,'" was
published by Peter Lang Publishing Group in late 2005. He earned
his doctorate in communication studies from University of Iowa.

Associate
Professor Miriam Smith is an expert on business, management and ethical
aspects of the electronic media as well
as Internet
and intellectual property law. She earned her master's degree
in communications
management
from University of Southern California and her doctor of
jurisprudence from Brigham Young University. Before joining SFSU, she
practiced
entertainment and business law in Los Angeles.

Professor Michelle
Wolf is an expert on social effects of mass media
and self-concept and sexual identity in the mass media. Her research
on body image in the mass media is the subject of a forthcoming book
and a documentary that has aired on KQED-Channel 9. She is co-founder
and president of the National Center on Disability and Journalism, a
nonprofit that strives to foster fairness, accuracy and diversity in
news reporting about the disabled and disability issues. Wolf earned
her doctorate in communication/mass communication theory from University
of Texas, Austin.

Associate
Professor Lena Zhang is an expert on Chinese and Chinese American
media, media aesthetics, international and intercultural communication
and new media. As director of the SFSU Institute of International
Media
Communication, Zhang helps coordinate study-abroad programs and visiting
professional and academic visitors and delegations from foreign countries.
Zhang earned her doctorate in mass communication from University
of Georgia, Athens.

Zhang can
be reached at (415) 338-1780 (office) or lzhang@sfsu.edu. She is available
for interviews in Mandarin in
addition to English.

About BECA
The largest and most influential program of its kind in the West,
BECA has graduated some of the top names in broadcast journalism,
entertainment
television and new media, including Bay Area news anchors Ken Bastida
and Frank Somerville, Frasier" producer Peter Casey and CNN Headline
News anchor Mike Galanos.

BECA
faculty members are authors of the most widely used textbooks
on radio and television performance, broadcast
news writing, television
production, electronic field production, and media aesthetics. They
have created respected dramatic works and documentaries, edited
national academic
journals, and contributed to scholarly publications. The department
celebrates its 60th anniversary this year.